Inside job in Bangladesh central bank heist?


Inside job: Commuters walk in front of the Bangladesh central bank building in Dhaka. A top investigator into the electronic theft of US81mil from the Bangladesh central bank is turning his attention to some IT technicians from the bank whom he suspects hooked up its transactions system to the public Internet, giving hackers access. — Reuters See story on page 7

DHAKA: A top investigator into the electronic theft of US$81mil from the Bangladesh central bank is turning his attention to some IT technicians from the bank whom he suspects hooked up its transactions system to the public Internet, giving hackers access.

In a series of interviews this month, Mohammad Shah Alam, a Bangladesh police deputy inspector-general who is heading investigations in Dhaka, went into some detail about how insiders at Bangladesh Bank may have helped in the execution of one of the world’s biggest cyber-heists last February.

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